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Is it possible to hide in the digital age?
Gone! He told no one his plans; not his girlfriend, or his parents, or his friends. No one knew where he was going, or his new name. He left no hints. If anyone found him, it would be because of his own mistakes…Evan Ratliff went on the run with Wired readers trying to track him [...]
Are you ready for the Wave?
Google is about to change the face of the email inbox with their new product, Wave.
Google Wave is a new model for communication and collaboration on the web, coming later this year.
Wave is a web-based application that merges multiple forms of communication and collaboration, including chat, mail and wikis, into a unified interface. Everything inside [...]
MBA Graduation… So what? Then what?
To those individuals who have already attained their MBA degrees I’d like to give a few points to reflect on… To those still journeying towards its attainment, or those contemplating undertaking the journey, the points might also give you something to think about…
An arduous journey has culminated to that point in time… that momentous day [...]
Strategy: Asking the right questions
Take some time to consider the major changes that occurred in your industry over the past five years. Could you have foreseen them? Perhaps yes… perhaps no… perhaps some. More important, have you even taken the time five years ago to consider what the major changes over the next five years would be? If you [...]
The Difference Between Management and Leadership
I found this video clip of Carly Fiorina, former CEO of HP at Stanford University’ Entrepreneurship Corner. Fiorina provides an insightful distinction between leadership and management. She describes leadership as changing the order of things and management as the production of acceptable results within known constraints and conditions.
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Insightful… “changing the order of things”… works for [...]
The 21st Century MBA – Quo Vadis?
A recent article in Strategy & Business – “The 21st Century MBA” – Mary Gentile argues that management education needs to be transformed to match a world that requires business leaders to address the concerns of all their stakeholders. She states that Business schools are now at a crossroads, and that critics from both outside [...]
Google’s Android: First open and free mobile platform
I came across Wired’s article “Google’s Open Source Android OS Will Free the Wireless Web” today that provides an expose of the birth of the project through to its current status. Google is positioning itself with the increasing demand of people’s preference to connect with each other and everything else via their mobile phones. Hence [...]
And away they go for the 5th Primal Quest…
Primal Quest, the worlds most challenging human endurance competition got off to a start at Big Sky Resort in Montana, USA, today…
Primal Quest is an expedition-level adventure race In which endurance athletes from around the world compete over an 800 km course. During the non-stop 10-day event, teams of four travel through a series of [...]
World's fastest computer
A USA government computer in New Mexico is the first supercomputer to perform at one petaflop (one thousand trillion calculations per second). Designed and built by IBM, the Roadrunner uses both traditional computer chips and the Cell Broadband Engine. The cell processor was originally designed for video game consoles such as the Sony Playstation 3.
Roadrunner [...]
Practice makes perfect
Wesbank’s television advert just does it for me… not merely for its visually appealing effects, but the simple, yet powerful life lesson of its punch-line… “practice makes perfect.”
